unearthly
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li adjective
1.
seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty.
2.
supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird: an unearthly scream.
3.
out of the ordinary; unreasonable or absurd: to get up at an unearthly hour.
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unearthly (ʌnˈɜːθlɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | ghostly; eerie; weird: unearthly screams |
| 2. | heavenly; sublime: unearthly music |
| 3. | ridiculous or unreasonable (esp in the phrase unearthly hour) |
| un'earthliness | |
| —n | |
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unearthly definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
One of these fights features strange calisthenics and unearthly shrieks.
What is thrilling in this eerie episode is the staging of the nocturnal rallies, the jangle of the strange, unearthly sounds.
Those qualities have created an almost unearthly landscape that is as beautiful as it is desolate.
For all its unearthly beauty, however, the exposed brain leaves little doubt that it is alive.
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